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Definition of banana republic. : a small dependent country usually of the tropics; especially : one run despotically.
His Cabbages and Kings (1904) is the origin of the term banana republic.. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut largely takes place in a fictional banana republic, the island of San Lorenzo. Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel Nostromo is set in Costaguana, a fictional South American banana republic that is also prone to revolution. Much political power is held by a foreign mining company.